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AIQuiet 9d · day 10

Trump’s White House Shelves AI Oversight Plan, Congress Also Stalls

A FINRA-style AI regulator died after tech executives lobbied Trump directly, and no bill in Congress has the votes to pass before the midterms.

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What to know

  • The White House paused work on a FINRA-style AI oversight body after tech executives, including David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg, lobbied Trump directly in August.
  • No new AI oversight proposals are currently under serious consideration at the White House.
  • Congress has no voting days left before the midterms and no unified support behind any single bill, including the Frontier Act.
  • The White House remains undecided on the Frontier Act's auditor concept, caught between AI accelerationists worried about regulatory capture and national security hawks focused on China.

Donald TrumpDonald Trump PresidentDemis HassabisDemis Hassabis Google DeepMind cofounderDavid SacksDavid Sacks Former White House AI czarMark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg Meta CEODario AmodeiDario Amodei Anthropic CEOLori Trahan and Jay Obernolte Co-sponsors of the Frontier Act

Trump’s White House Shelves AI Oversight Plan, Congress Also Stalls
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    Wired reports Washington has no active path to AI regulation

    Wired's Hugo Lowell reported that no new AI oversight proposals are seriously under consideration at the White House, and that Congress has no voting days left before the midterms and no unity behind any single bill, including the Frontier Act, which OpenAI publicly backs but the White House has not endorsed.

    “hoax…”
    — Donald Trump, President · source
  2. background

    Trump dismisses AI safety concerns as a "hoax" — In a recent Truth Social post, Trump doubled down on rejecting any overt AI regulation, reflecting the White House's continued opposition to oversight proposals.

  3. background

    Amodei publishes a lengthy warning on frontier AI dangers — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's 3,822-word missive on the risks of frontier AI stirred anxieties inside the administration; aides viewed it as creating unnecessary headaches even though it reflects a moderate position within AI circles.

  4. background

    Tech executives lobby Trump to kill the oversight plan — A chorus of executives including former Trump AI czar David Sacks and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Trump individually to express opposition once they learned of the effort, leaving the proposal in limbo.

  5. background

    Trahan and Obernolte introduce the Frontier Act — The bipartisan bill would let the Commerce Department embed auditors at AI labs who could report critical safety incidents and empower the administration to halt development of a catastrophically risky model.

  6. background

    Hassabis floats a FINRA-style AI oversight body — Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis proposed the idea in a July 14 essay and in briefings to senior officials; White House aides, Treasury, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy then drafted a preliminary framework for labs to self-regulate frontier model development.